"Joaquin is located about 385 miles northeast of the central Bahamas as of Tuesday morning.

This system is moving slowly to the west and this is expected to continue over the next day or so, before turning north by Friday.

The official National Hurricane Center forecast track includes parts of the U.S. East Coast this weekend into early next week.

However, uncertainty is unusually high due to the presence of several other disturbances near the East Coast and their interaction with blocking high pressure aloft over the north Atlantic Ocean later this week. It's entirely possible that Joaquin may never make landfall at all.

In any case, Tropical Storm Joaquin is not expected to impact land until the weekend, if at all."